It is no longer necessary to quarantine patients with covid, it is enough to treat them like all other patients with respiratory infections.

This is what Dr. Gergana Nikolova said for "Your Day" on Nova News.

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"There is a palpable pressure on hospital care, but this is a period in which there are a lot of respiratory diseases to begin with. This year, covid has given way to flu, but we do not have the measures of the previous two years. Now the flu has arrived and we are expecting the peak. The lack of vaccines is due to a serious underestimation of the flu," she said. 

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And called for masks to be used.

According to her, there is no shortage of antiviral drugs.

"Influenza is not treated with an antibiotic, but with antiviral drugs. There is no shortage of them. I have not had patients come back with such a complaint. In some cases of bacterial infection, an antibiotic has to be administered, but even if it is not there, it can to be replaced," explained Dr. Nikolova. 

According to her, the variant of covid "Kraken" is not yet so widespread in our country, and there are none among her patients.

"It is virulent, but not aggressive in terms of complications," the doctor pointed out.

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Dr. Gergana Nikolova

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